leonine

• Procter and he were in the same Commission, and were on excellent terms, the younger officer always regarding the elder with a kind of leonine deference. —  Yesterdays with Authors
• The voice of his passions was leonine, but his moral sensibility wanted delicacy. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Do you know that Floyd is rather of the leonine order? —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• The image of Theseus is accompanied by a legend in the "leonine" rhythm Theseus intravit, monstrumque biforme necavit. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• Nietzsche in Germany puts it forth as a philosophic principle that humanity exists not for the democratic purpose of securing the highest development of all, but for the aristocratic purpose of producing a race of supermen, an elite of strong, forceful, "leonine" beings. —  The Essentials of Spirituality

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